Deputy Director of the Institute for Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Korablov explains why Jupiter looks striped.
Jupiter’s atmosphere contains impurities that give the planet its color. Inside Jupiter’s atmosphere there are complex gas flows, which in principle are similar to gas. Moving around the Earth, the only thing is that such circulating gases flow a lot over Jupiter, ”Mr. Korablov says.
“This is why the planet has so many stripes, because each gas flow moves in different directions, and on their borders forms gas vortices similar to the forward and backward gas vortices of the Earth. “, adds the scientist.
According to Mr. Korablov, the most famous gas vortex on this giant planet is the “Great Red Spot”. Unlike the gas vortices on Earth, the “great red spot” is a giant storm that has been in Jupiter’s atmosphere for hundreds of years.
